BlogProfitz Review – Make Money with Affiliate Blogs on AutoPilot
June 4, 2009 - Written by Gyutae Park
Last year I reviewed StoreStacker, a self-hosted system that automatically builds out a huge affiliate site around any theme imaginable. Building these niche stores quickly became very popular and many publishers made a lot of money. However, the biggest issue with these types of stores is that they don’t provide much value outside of the merchant sites. Why should Google rank a niche store site when all it really is is a list of affiliate links? Google quickly caught on and starting swatting these sites down.
To combat this issue, the creators of StoreStacker launched a brand new service today called Blog Profitz. BlogProfitz utilizes the same concept as StoreStacker in that it aggregates products from a variety of affiliate programs (e.g. Amazon, eBay, Clickbank) to create an online store. However, there is one big difference – BlogProfitz uses a Wordpress blog as its backbone. Real content is mixed in with the automatic affiliate offers and the blog therefore has the potential to provide real value and make money.
How does BlogProfitz Work?
BlogProfitz is essentially a system that joins affiliate marketing with a Wordpress blog. You start off with a blog (up to 100 blogs in 1 account), either self hosted or on Wordpress.com, and tie in BlogProfitz to display thousands of affiliate products in separate posts organized in different categories.
The system automatically pulls in offers from the following stores and networks based on your set criteria.
For example, you can easily have BlogProfitz display products related to “surfing” from your selected list of sites. It’ll use available descriptions and images and even inject your affiliate links into the posts. The beauty of it is that everything is automated so you don’t really need to worry about it after you set everything up.
What about content?
The biggest selling point of BlogProfitz is that the system revolves around a Wordpress blog. This means that you can easily add content that users and search engines will like – and thus increase exposure for the affiliate offers.
BlogProfitz enables you to automatically pull in content from the following sources based on topic.
- Your own articles
- YouTube videos
- Content from RSS feeds
- Private label article from TheContentClub.org
Everything is fine except for one thing – content from RSS feeds. While RSS is a great tool to syndicate content, it’s also commonly used by spammers to steal content. You see these spam blogs everywhere on the net and it isn’t pretty. While the content from RSS feeds feature can be used effectively and ethically (importing posts from your own blogs), I’d be naive to think that people wouldn’t exploit it to steal and profit from other people’s content.
My suggestion? Add in a verification check for RSS to ensure that users only use feeds they’re authorized to. The last thing we need is more copycat blogs filled with affiliate offers.
Other than that, the ability to pull in syndicated content using the Wordpress platform makes BlogProfitz that much more powerful. You can see a sample blog using the system at proscriptinstall.com/category/online-shop.
Pricing
Unlike StoreStacker, BlogProfitz isn’t a self-hosted system. Instead it uses an independent members area to tie blogs with content and affiliate links. Pricing follows a membership model and is shown below.
- Trial – 1 blog for $19 per month
- Starter – 5 blogs for $49 per month
- Intermediate – 15 blogs for $99 per month
- Advanced – 50 blogs for $149 per month
- Master Blogger – 100 blogs for $249 per month
Final Verdict
If you’re looking to make money online using an automated system, Blog Profitz could be the right service for you – especially if you’re doing it on a mass scale. It’s extremely easy to set up and that’s really all you have to do, other than drive traffic of course. Wordpress is a very versatile platform and I think using it as an affiliate store mixed with content works well.
That being said, I’m not the biggest fan of automated systems like this. I generally find them to be short lived and would much rather build a solid long term online business. But that’s just me…
I wouldn’t recommend implementing BlogProfitz on an existing blog – that’s just asking for trouble with all of affiliate posts. Instead, experiment with Blog Profitz on a new blog. It takes a short while to set everything up, but the profits after that could come in on auto pilot.
Try BlogProfitz. Membership is capped to 1,000 users so get in early if you’re interested.
What are your thoughts on BlogProfitz? Good, bad? Would you use it to set up niche affiliate blogs?
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I’m kind of surprised you would review something like this Gyutae. It seems to go against a lot of stuff that you talk about. Anyway, I think there are better (and free) ways to setting up an autoblog on Wordpress if you are into that sort of thing.
I would like to know about the free ways. Chris can you share some.
Hi Chris,
You’re right – this isn’t something that I’d normally review. However, this is a paid review and I thought it was noteworthy enough to at least take a look and provide my thoughts on it.
I mention in the review that “I’m not the biggest fan of automated systems like this. I generally find them to be short lived and would much rather build a solid long term online business.”
This still hold true of course, but I know that some Internet marketers like systems like this and make money doing it. Although I do have my own philosophy when it comes to business, I can’t really argue with the income others are making with other methods.
I’m keeping an open mind at least and from time to time will review relevant products that go outside my focus.
well i gotta say this is a ’smarter’ creations of them. They know search engines love blogs
You are the only blog I have read that has listed the price when reviewing this product. I wonder why the others have excluded the price form theri reviews?
I think its because they dont want people to be put off by the monthly payments and they may be using affiliate links, so anything to get people to subscribe really
Nice.. It seems like this company is really making a good launch!
It’ll be interesting to see how well this really works. I would just be worried that search engine are going to hate all the duplicate content. Unless there are 100% sure that no 2 Blogs will have the same content.
Hi there.
I am Omar, one of the Halfagain guys. I thought i should mention who am i so is all fair. I stumbled into this review and read it, as well as the comments and i would only have 2 things to say.
1. I hear many people talking about duplicate content and footprints. People afraid of these as little kids afraid of monsters under their bed. Nevertheless, few people really know what kind of content google punish as duplicate or what a footprint is.
“Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Mostly, this is not deceptive in origin. Examples of non-malicious duplicate content could include:
- Discussion forums that can generate both regular and stripped-down pages targeted at mobile devices
- Store items shown or linked via multiple distinct URLs
- Printer-only versions of web pages”
That is quoted from google webmaster support. It clearly says that store items shown or linked via different URLs are NOT malicious and do not attract any penalty.
2. I am sorry to tell you this Guytae, but posting rss feeds on your blog or site does not mean stealing content. RSS feeds where made for syndication, for sites to share and exchange content and information. As long as a link to original article is used and the user of feed does not claim he is the author of that info, there is nothing wrong about that. If that would been wrong, sites like Hubpages or Squidoo would not let their users to post rss feed content in their pages. You probably know that both those services let you list rss headlines withing hubs or lens. If anything was wrong or shady about that, i doubt they would have allowed it.
So, trying to make money using feeds on your site (in the ethical way) or listing affiliate products is not wrong. Wrong it is when you make money selling crap, when you abuse people lack of experience and knowledge to sell them all kind of Holy grails of making money online. Although we compete in internet marketing area, you will never see our sites promise to anyone that will start makeing $1000, $10000, $100.000 and sometime even more in next days, weeks or months. We know and always say that the power is in the user too, not only in the tool.
Yeah I read about them in some of other blogs. Now this will be a great source of income for new bie as well.
Would love to know there specification as well.
Its easy to setup a wordpress blog and fill all the contents from clickbank marketplace feed if you know little php coding.
It is really an excellent money making opportunity.